The Cursed Chateau - James Malizewski's (sp) "Screw You" house adventure appropriately converted to Lamentations of the Flame Princess. $7.50. Hope it's better than the old version, though presumably it now has an entry on the random encounter/event table that destroys the universe.

Rules

Dueling Rules for Old School Roleplaying Games - 15 pages on dueling for OD&D. Can't you just use the normal combat system and say the hit points are only subduing damage, like in Unearthed Arcana? I guess that's not old school enough. PWYW at least.Potions 1 - 9 new potions. 99 cents.

Saturday, May 28, 2016

Tabletop Library is a new-ish publishing platform apparently owned by the S&W Guy. As such, he may be giving away some free items if their most recent Kickstarter (for Bard's Gate, yet another 3e to 5e/PF/S&W conversion) goes well.

Thursday, May 26, 2016

At some point though, I think the one page dungeon format gets in the way of being effective. So much information is crammed into such a tiny space that a) it's hard to read and b) just seems pointless, just sticking to a format for the sake of being a gimmick.

Anyway, despite the drawbacks of the format, it's nice adventure. The author is apparently French so there are some oddities in the text, but nothing too bad.

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

If you are one of the dozen or so readers of my blog, you might know that Tim Hartin of Paratime Design is my favorite cartographer. Not just the style of the drawing of the map, but the design of his maps are always excellent and a great inspiration for making an adventure.

He's just released a new set of maps, Monolith Tower, which as it sounds, is a series of maps depicting a large tower (six stories and a roof), for only $5.50.

Battlesystem 2e - I only had the first one with all the counters. I remember once setting up a battle and then sneezing, literally blowing my army away. Supposedly this is simpler. $4.99 and 128 pages.

Rules

Beasties - New monsters, traps, NPCs and so forth from Night Owl Games, makers of the excellent Warriors of the Red Planet and the crappy Colonial Troopers. Hopefully it's more like the former than the latter. 84 pages, $4.99

Saturday, May 14, 2016

BF1 Tower of Skulls is a high level (10th to 12th) adventure from Cut to the Chase Games for Swords & Wizardry. It's actually been released for several different systems (Pathfinder, 5e, and even Savage Worlds) but is pretty strictly an old school dungeon crawl. It does seem to have been written with 5e in mind and then back converted, so there are a few oddities and problems arising from such a conversion.

The Tower of Skulls has something of a lengthy backstory, but essentially a rival demon prince of Orcus, a demon prince of undead plants, ended up on the losing end of a war and Orcus imprisoned him in the Tower of Skulls. But the PCs probably don't know this and simply go to the tower for other reasons. Several ideas are presented, but not are particularly compelling, other than the lure of loot.

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As a long time D&D fan who was lured back and then disappointed by the 5e announcement, I was thrilled to discover there was a whole bunch of people making products for old school versions of the game, either adventures and sourcebooks, or variations of the old rules.

But there was little in the way of news about new products, other than scattered comments on various message boards and sometimes not even that. So I thought I'd collect all the news I could find, as well as write the occasional review.

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